‘카운터 모뉴먼트’의 비물질적 특성과 국내외 사례연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand monuments as an expanded form of participatory art projects aimed at healing collective trauma, based on James Young's concept of ‘Counter Monument’. Although the counter monument is a form that deviates from the material and sculptural framework of traditional monuments, it fulfills the original purpose of the monument, which is to ‘represent and preserve memories,’ and at this time, collective trauma brings about formal, media, and expressive changes in the monument. Accordingly, this study explains James Young's concept of counter monuments and the examples he indicates. Furthermore, it will analyze domestic cases that show collective trauma as non-material representations, focusing on interviews with the author and testimonies of participants. These ‘expanded monuments’ are a special way of mourning that seeks to ‘reinterpret within the meaning of the present’ the events that came as a big blow to the Korean society. At the same time, it has a very special meaning with 're-historicizing' those events within a new sense of cultural solidarity.